Is it currently possible to build Eclipse Plugins by Maven AND have nice IDE Integration?

Question

I\'m currently evaluating maven to improve our build process. The building and creating of normal jar files works so far, although I\'m not entirely happy with the Maven IDE

Answer 1

If u r building an Eclipse Plugin or application (RCP) Maven Tycho is the recommended way to build it.

It's pretty intelligent in resolving osgi dependencies. U can refer to my tutorials on Maven Tycho Tutorials

Maven Tycho requires m2eclipse and Tycho configurator installation.

And archetype should be eclipse-plugin or eclipse-feature or eclipse-repository